Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…

2. It is usually done out of ostentation. For when ⟨p. 314⟩men hear them they think they do it to show their learning, and so do it out of vanity; if the auditory be mixed a Latin word may sometimes be used, if wholly Ignorant then not at all. By this you may see how far we may go in using humane sayings. Now the using of them in other cases as for ostentation and vain glory or such like, is not to be done.

2. It is usually done out of ostentation. For when ⟨p. 314⟩men hear them they think they do it to shew their learning, and so do it out of vanity; if the auditory be mixt a Latine word may sometimes be used, if wholly Ignorant then not at all. By this you may see how far we may go in using humane sayings. Now the using of them in other cases as for ostentation and vain glory or such like, is not to be done.

I will add some reasons, and answer some objections.

I will adde some reasons, and answer some objections.

1. Reason. We may not do it because ordinary quotations of Fathers (not in some named Cases) have the nature of a confirming testimony, though we intend it not yet the nature of the work is such, though it be not intentio agentis, yet if it be conditio operis, it excuseth him not, as if a man swear and say I thought it not, it excuseth him not, if we quote Saint Augustine it is as much as if we quoted Saint Peter, or Saint John, If it be without intimation, though we intend illustration, and not confirmation, yet the condition of the work is such, Suppose a stranger come, what difference would he know between Saint Augustine, and Saint Peter.